Consulting - DICE -Senior Manager

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Dubai, UAE

Ref: HP639-394

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Line of Service
Advisory

Industry/Sector
Regional, State, Local & City Government

Specialism
Operations Strategy

Management Level
Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary
A career in our Management Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world's largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.

As a member of our team, you'll help the world's most significant organisations, public and private, quickly become more effective. We improve the way they operate; manage costs; better align people, process and technology initiatives; support business growth to maintain or improve competitive edge and complete market and regulatory risk assessment. In doing so, we focus on their agendas and the big issues they need to deal with, both today and in the future.

Responsibilities
- Lead work streams and/or projects end-to-end in Digital, Innovation and Customer Experience strategy to implementation engagements
- Leverage deep expertise when identifying and using problem solving approaches and effectively define data collection approaches, develop analytical approaches and frameworks and leverage required data to formulate conclusions and pragmatic recommendations
- Perform advanced analyses and reconcile ambiguous, conflicting or poor sources of information
- Effectively communicate complex topics in an engaging and persuasive way to diverse audiences
- Play a significant role in formal and informal presentations and client engagements
- Communicate ideas, conclusions, and recommendations clearly, concisely, and persuasively in writing; deliver client-ready presentations and reports
- Establish and maintain strong, trusting client relationships; develop innovative ways to meet clients' needs that lead to client satisfaction, retention, and/or acquisition
- Engage clients in an advisory capacity both formally and informally and be sought by clients on topics within area(s) of expertise
- Resolve conflicts productively based on facts and understanding of different perspectives
- Meaningfully collaborate across different line of services to deliver high quality results
- Develop internal knowledge base; keep up to date with the latest trends from the region and from across the world focusing on digitalization, innovation and customer experience
- Contribute in business development activities, write and support winning proposals in ME
- Support the development of internal knowledge base - trainings, perspectives, intellectual capital, etc
- Work with colleagues in all Middle East offices on client work and internal initiatives as well as with international teams where appropriate
- Mentor and train other members of the business unit and the project team in order to foster a high performing team environment
- Develop your understanding of the key trends in the market and in the region pertaining to DICE
- Routinely collaborate with other experts to shape the future of clients and to bring about positive change

Requirements

Requirements
- The preferred candidates should be results oriented with the ability to show flexibility and adaptability. They should be able to work independently and as part of a team with a fast pace and a high energy that will translate into high quality results.
- Mandatory education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in relevant subject areas such as business studies, computer sciences, engineering, analytics etc.
- Preferable education/qualifications: The following qualification(s) are preferable and beneficial for the candidate to perform the role - MBA/relevant Master's degree, Six Sigma Certified, Certified Data Analysis.
- Years of Experience:Min 5-6 years of relevant experience in digitalization, innovation and customer experience, preferably within a professional services environment
- Excellent organisational skills, having the ability to prioritise work load whilst being resilient and being able to cope well under pressure and meeting tight deadlines
- Previous experience in developing digital/innovation/solution specific strategies
- Previous experience in developing MVPs, prototypes, proofs of concept for services and/or products preferred
- Previous experience in developing quantitative business cases and conducting detailed ROI analysis
- Previous experience in identifying and detailing use cases around digital topics such as AI, Blockchain, etc.
- Proven technical skills in the following programs - Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Familiarity with computer programming languages such as JAVA, C++, .net etc.
- Language Skills: Excellent communication skills (verbal and written). Fluent in English but multilingual Arabic speaker preferable
- Previous experience in one or more of the following industries preferred: logistics and transport, consumer industrial, energy, utilities, chemicals
- Ability and willingness to travel within the Middle East and worldwide where the project dictates

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.

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Senior Manager salaries in UAE

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